So we all know what an FRS is right? Right? Let’s get on with it because this movie took seven hours to end.
-300: The one millionth time when we see molten metal falling into the mould to create the movie title.
Here it comes with heraldry also. #MadeOfSteel types
-101: Some minor irritation happens and someone in the crowd shouts: “indha aniyayatha thatti ketka aale illaya?” and cue to SK introduction.
Yes this has been happening from Bhagavater times.
+12: SK has two horses named Alex and Telex #goodnames
SK also names his pigeons after Tom Cruise, Arnold, Obama etc
-10: Just when we thought director Ponram had done away with narration and ushered in a new age in commercial filmmaking, there is narration.
Damn narration.
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All narration about (insert regional language here) history is ultimately a glorified version of the (insert regional language here) past.
+21: SK breaks a wooden fence during introduction, uses pieces of the broken fence to continue action. We appreciate this reduce and reuse approach.
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98% of movies about villages will be about how one village is not able to get along with nearby village. Here it is Singampatty vs Puliampatti
+32: SK,Rajah of Singampatti is able to attract an audience of 11,000 people for his facebook live.
This is in a time when even Sunny Leone was able to get only just above 6K in a recent live stream. We will not speak about how we know about this Sunny Leone fact, matter ends there.
+101: Self referential movie is totally self referential
SK acknowledges this very fact in the opening song, when the oeuvre of director of Ponram is compared to “aracha maava araipoma” but even a talent is required for that.
Seema Raaja is essentially the SK-Soori combination and a lot of girl chasing thrown along the way; as usual getting the girl is the goal of the hero
-101: Even if hero is the rajah of Singampatti, goal of hero is: get the girl.
Here it is Samantha going under the name Sudhandhira Selvi (Daughter of Freedom?)
-54: Heroine says no means no, but hero tells story of phoenix bird which attempts to reach the sun at every possible attempt even after burning; heroine is amused and ultimately gives in to these ‘charms’. #ModernLove
-341: As usual, hero sings song in praise of farmers and how they never seek to gain profits
But never pauses to ask question what film producers seek to gain from such unabashedly profit making films.
-100: Ex-Lady Superstar Simran plays the baddie in this semi-rural film which means that audience need to understand that shouting will be a major character trait.
-29.8: At some point that movie becomes so boring that usually enthusiastic FRS writers themselves have stopped coming up with random FRS points and started to browse their mobile.
It was at this time that they could have seen the Sunny Leone instagram live stream, although we won’t talk about this anymore.
-54: That no one on-set had the courage to tell what Soori was doing is not funny.
-890.3: Movie suddenly tries to become Baahubali with an absolute force-fit for the ages with a story about Kadambavel Raja(also SK) who protected his land from invaders.
Since the present day story-line was not going anywhere, the story of Kadambavel Raja is echoed and Seema Raja also protects the land of his people etc from crony capitalists and middlemen etc
I mean… was this not boring while writing itself?
Seema Raja pushes the boundaries of boredom to such an extent that boredom is transformed into an irrepressible irritation, only very few movies are possible of doing such things. That itself is an achievement.
Also since most things are force fitted in the film, you can at least listen to what we have to say about pride and history in general.
If our pride should come from past glories, then we are failing in the present and will surely fall in the future as well.
Well, that is a depressing statement to finish an FRS with, so we will add some 20 marks for a CGI generated leopard which is there for laughs in this movie.
Regards
Team FRS
The Lowly Laureate 